Kartheek Ramakrishna
Platform Engineer
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Cary, Township of Cary, WakeMember since December 13, 2025
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Results-driven Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience in both PaaS and IaaS environments, specializing in AWS
Experience
- Led the transformation of enterprise on-prem monolithic applications to PaaS platforms - EKS & VMware Tanzu, enabling flexibility, scalability, and operational cost savings; Architected a GitOps-based Kubernetes PaaS using tools such as
ArgoCD, Helm, and Paketo Buildpacks to streamline app onboarding and eliminate manual drift.
- Designed and deployed Active/Passive DR infrastructure across multiple clusters, ensuring sub-4-hour RTO and high availability for mission-critical services; Delivered over $1.5M in annual cost savings by implementing rightsizing strategies, autoscaling, and spot-instance automation across environments.
- Designed and deployed automated data governance and lineage tracking systems across EKS platform, enhancing compliance and data integrity for business-critical applications; Proven track record in designing high-availability, multiregion architectures with advanced backup and replication strategies for financial data systems.